The Mid-Manhattan Library's ongoing Three Autuers of World Cinema series continues tonight with Federico Fellini's I VITELLONI.

Winter. Jeezus, will you die already?

John Frankenhiemer's debut feature THE YOUNG STRANGER screens for the last of its three-day run as part of MOMA's Auteurist History of Film series.

John Frankenheimer's debut feature THE YOUNG STRANGER screens for the second of its three day run as part of MOMA's Auteurist History of Film series. Long before star James MacArthur booked 'em he was a son of Hollywood privelege threatened with a booking of his own over a movie theater assault. Intriguing, but not my Pick.

Welcome to April 2013's first Pick. Wish I had more to choose from but the field provided me this day makes up for a lack of quantity with a surfeit of quality.

April. Breathe that word in friends. Glorious April. It seemed for a stretch back in February that this day would not arrive, that baseball and bike rides and the slow tranquil greening of our magic kingdom would skip a year and we'd be blighted by Ingmar Bergman weather until our next spin round the sun. So let's all let out a cathartic exhale and celebrate this changing of the seasonal guard.

The Andrew Sarris tribute at Anthology Film Archives screens its penultimate today.

Spring's mighty broom sweeps clean, it's said. As such Film Forum bids adieu to its two week booking of Fritz Lang's M and one week of Michael Cimino's HEAVEN'S GATE, which sorta equals out to the same amount of time somehow. Emerging with the thaw in their place is Alfred Hitchcock's DIAL "M" FOR MURDER, the Mahstah's lone 3-D effort from the gimick's initial 50's craze, presented in that format for the next seven days. Cute, but not my Pick.

MOMA kicks the day in classic screenigns off with Jean Cocteau's final film and conclusion to his Orphic Trilogy TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS as part of their Auteurist History of Film series. JC was nothing if not bold, imaginative and provocative, and his last film pairs his usual visual poetry with appearances by Charles Aznavour, Pablo Picasso and Yul Brynner.

Film Forum's dual screenings of Fritz Lang's M and Michael Cimino's HEAVEN'S GATE begin to wind down this bracing late March Wednesday. I've caught 'em both and can attest thus; having seen M screened in the past the new DCP restoration begs your attendance, having NEVER seen GATE with an audience it was heartening to view it on a big screen surrounded by fellow fans.